Sentences with phrase «topography from»

In addition to polar research, he also contributed to the development of algorithms that were used to mosaic data for the near - global map of topography from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM).

The glacier count comes from the recently released Randolph Glacier Inventory and global topography from NASA satellite data.

Most recently, she was an Artist at Sea aboard Exploration Vessel Nautilus where she collaborated with scientists mapping out never - before - seen ocean floor topography from the Galápagos Islands to California, and on the Research Vessel Falkor where she created art alongside scientists exploring uncharted territory from Vietnam to Guam.

Burtynsky's «Nickel Tailings No. 30» reveals warped topography from above.

Survive in a massive open environment using real Mars topography from satellite imagery.

With 1,500 miles of coast, where both Atlantic and the Indian Ocean meet together, unbelievable miscellaneous topography from the coolest winery of the southwest to the hot Kalahari Desert in the north, from magnificent beaches to the kingdom of wilderness, South Africa now greets more than 9 million tourists every year.

The simulations rely on the LLNL - developed SW4 seismic simulation program and the current best representation of the three - dimensional (3D) earth (geology and surface topography from the USGS) to compute seismic wave ground shaking throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.

The show offers a wide variety of perspectives on the landscape in its natural, altered, or re-imagined forms and a range of topographies from cultivated lands, to forest, and desert.

She says: «I'm fascinated by the landscapes and topographies from women's faces, their stories and context.

Viewing topographies from another angle, Paranyu Pithayarungsarit's featured Landscape and Nature piece, The Great Wall of Namib, explores the history of the oldest desert in the world, highlighting the surprising visual symmetry and sublimity of the locale.

Not exact matches

LA NY: Aerial Photographs of Los Angeles and New York (Thames & Hudson, November 7, 2017) is a dazzling visual tale of two cities, Los Angeles and New York, photographed from the air, shooting straight down to emphasize the particular patterns of place and how the urban grid adapts to local topography — and, indeed, how the topography is itself adapted to human purposes.

This mountain juts out not from the topography of Galilee, but from the topography of God.

Its flat topography has left it vulnerable to invading armies from the time of the medieval Mongols to the Poles in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the Nazi Germans in the twentieth.

The minimal topography of our valley allows for cultivation on parcels that range from 12 to 120 acres in size.

Rich volcanic bedrock and sediment provide a geologic uniformity, while the AVA's diverse topography ranges from steep mountains to valley floor making Calistoga entirely unique to other Napa Valley AVAs.

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The lines emanate from well - marked indentations in the dark regions fitted by natural position for departure points, and are locally dependent upon the general topography of the fundamental features of the surface.

They combined data from LEND with lunar topography and illumination maps derived from LRO's LOLA instrument (Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter), and temperature maps from LRO's Diviner instrument (Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment) to discover the greater hydrogen abundance and associated surface conditions on PFS.

Stewart Jamieson from Durham University in England and his colleagues made the discovery by looking for subtle changes in the ice sheet's surface shapes, developed as a result of ice flowing over diverse topography.

Using data from NASA missions observing Earth, researchers at the University of California, Irvine have created new maps of the bed topography beneath a score of glaciers in southeast Greenland, thereby gaining a much better understanding of why some are undergoing rapid retreat and others are relatively stable.

Some scientists plan to assess the stability of the remaining ice shelf, others will map the region's seafloor topography and still others want to study the newly exposed ecosystem that's been hidden from the sun for up to 120,000 years (SN Online: 10/13/17).

Four days after its launch on 17 January, the Jason - 3 high - precision ocean altimetry satellite is delivering its first sea surface height measurement data in near - real time for evaluation by engineers from the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), EUMETSAT, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and scientists from the international Ocean Surface Topography Science Team.

The state's topography makes it vulnerable to flooding from storm surges.

For those staying on Earth, geologists reconstructed the ancient topography of the American West from an unexpected resource: the signatures of rain that fell millions of years ago.

Seismic retrofit techniques will vary with the nature of the structure, soil conditions, local topography, and distance from various faults.

The topography of West Antarctica below the ice sheet as viewed from above, looking toward the Antarctic Peninsula.

One paper [subscription required] models the gravity and topography of Mars to distinguish impact features from volcanic activity.

Using data from the ERS - 1 and ERS - 2 satellites, both operated by the European Space Agency, the researchers collected images of the topography of several volcanoes over a 10 - year period.

The map combines all of the Titan topography data from multiple sources.

This unexpected, yet - to - be-named feature (colored mid - to dark brown in the exaggerated topography above) stretches 750 kilometers — about twice the length the Grand Canyon — from central Greenland (lower center of image) all the way to a fjord along the northwestern coast (top of image).

Taking into account the sizes of the boulders, the height of the plateaus, and the local topography, they estimate that a single tsunami resulting from the sudden, total collapse of the volcano's flank must have run up on Santiago to elevations of more than 270 meters above sea level.

«There is lot of value in examining the topography of Titan in a broad, global sense, since it tells us about forces acting on the surface from below as well as above,» said Radebaugh.

An image of a rocky planet describes the topography of its surface, from which geologists can draw some conclusions about the planet's history, but it tells us little about its inner workings or how the surface features formed.

Sponsored by the two organizations, the HDTV - equipped spacecraft Kaguya entered lunar orbit last month and went on to shoot a combined eight minutes of crisp video (available here) from a distance of around 60 miles (100 kilometers), offering a panoramic view of the moon's northern topography.

The tsunami inundation in Ventura / Oxnard is significant in the model owing to a combination of factors: large slip and seafloor displacement from the modeled earthquake scenario, refraction, focusing, and Ventura / Oxnard's flat topography that facilitates water flowing inland.

Using all available geologic, tectonic and geothermal heat flux data for Greenland — along with geothermal heat flux data from around the globe — the team deployed a machine learning approach that predicts geothermal heat flux values under the ice sheet throughout Greenland based on 22 geologic variables such as bedrock topography, crustal thickness, magnetic anomalies, rock types and proximity to features like trenches, ridges, young rifts, volcanoes and hot spots.

Now MIT scientists have found that despite these similarities, the origins of topography, or surface elevations, on Mars and Titan are very different from that on Earth.

On the basis of the calculated topography, Bouley, Antoine Séjourné (Université Paris - Sud) and François Costard (CNRS) have shown that despite the different relief, with or without Tharsis, in both cases most rivers would have flowed from the cratered highlands of the southern hemisphere to the low plains of the northern hemisphere.

An analysis of gravity and topography data from Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has revealed unexpected features of the moon's outer ice shell.

The topography of East Africa completely changed: from a homogeneous flat region covered in moist forest, to a mountainous landscape with plateaus and deep rift valleys, where vegetation varied from cloud forest to desert scrub.

A high - resolution image from the CTX camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is draped over topography data to create a bird's - eye view of martian gullies, features thought to represent relatively recent flow of water on the surface of Mars.

2017 GSA short course: High Resolution Topography and 3D Imaging II: Introduction to Structure from Motion (SfM) Photogrammetry October 21, 2017 - Seattle, WA Supported by: UNAVCO, OpenTopography

Lévêque, S - velocity model and inferred Moho topography beneath the Antarctic Plate from Rayleigh waves, Journal of Geophysical Research, 10.1002 / 2014JB011332, 2015

We will demonstrate the power and importance of the cross-correlation of nanoscale hyperspectal imaging with data from other scanning - probe techniques such as topography, surface potential, conductivity and photocurrent.

The cinematography by Andrew Lesnie once again captures the elegance of the New Zealand topography while establishing a unique look for each new location to which the heroes travel, from the bleached and ruined former splendor of a city of Gondor (home of men) to the claustrophobic, rain - drenched Helm's Deep.

Encourage them to utilize accurate information, such as the lengths of the days or years, the planets» distances from the sun, and the topography of each planet, in planning their game.

Using generalized USA information from ArcView and spatial data from the Otsego County Planning Office, the students were challenged to use GIS to see and make sense of the connection between the topography of the Susquehanna Valley, existing land use (farms, housing, commercial, restaurants, entertainment), the proposed baseball park, location of existing roads, and public opposition to and support for the proposed development.

On one recent afternoon, fifth - graders reflected on passages from the book «How to Eat Fried Worms,» fourth - graders learned about topography in preparation for a field trip to the Museum of Science, and some students in other grades slid bows across cellos and violins to the tune of «Carnival.»

Missing items are one thing, but what is even more worrisome is that Apple Maps contains a lot of errors which can range from two different objects being depicted at the same locations to gross mismatch between the topography in reality and what is depicted in the map.

From Los Angeles, the film and celebrity capital of the world to Napa Valley with its rolling vineyards, the «Golden State» runs the gamut from the glitzy to the idyllic, and it should come as no surprise that its residents are as diverse as its topograFrom Los Angeles, the film and celebrity capital of the world to Napa Valley with its rolling vineyards, the «Golden State» runs the gamut from the glitzy to the idyllic, and it should come as no surprise that its residents are as diverse as its topografrom the glitzy to the idyllic, and it should come as no surprise that its residents are as diverse as its topography.